The Indian Supreme Court yesterday ordered the government to implement an ambitious project to link the major rivers of the region in a “time-bound manner”.

SONEPUR: With ornithologists worried about the declining sparrow population, the Forest Department has launched a campaign to conserve and protect them.

GUWAHATI, Feb 27 – “Any dam on any river kills the river to some extent and cast adverse impact on the livelihood of people living downstream, alters the water quality, reduces the capacity of the

AFTER GUNNING for American seed major Monsanto and its Indian subsidiary Mahyco for violating the Biological Diversity Act in the Bt Brinjal case, the Karnataka State Bio-diversity Board has decide

New Delhi: It was a chance spotting and the group would have just walked past had the bird not taken a sudden flight.

CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday inaugurated a scheme to plant 64 lakh saplings across Tamil Nadu.

She kicked off the scheme by planting a banyan sapling in the Corporation park located in front of the State Secretariat. With a view to increase the forest cover and to safeguard bio-diversity in the State, the government has been taking various steps. Due to the ever-increasing number of vehicles and urbanisation, air pollution is going up.

Kerala has termed some recommendations of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) draconian.

In its response to the suggestions of the panel, the State came down heavily on the proposal to decommission dams older than 50 years. “Such a step will leave the State without power in a few years,” said a report signed by James Varghese, Principal Secretary to the Kerala Government

People of north-eastern Indian state Manipur and Assam have been raising their voice continuously against construction of 500 meter high Tipaimukh dam that will severely damage life and bio-diversi